The Vicar of Bray Hypothesis explains why populations that undergo one variety of this process respo
The Vicar of Bray Hypothesis explains why populations that undergo one variety of this process respond to environmental changes better than others, and Muller's Ratchet explains why populations using another variety of this process build up deleterious mutations. John Maynard Smith's "cost of males" is part of the puzzle as to why some organisms use one variety of this process rather than another. One type of this process, exemplified in binary [*] fission, results in the creation of genetically identical organisms, while its other variety involves two parents creating offspring. Either asexual or sexual, for 10 points, name this process by which new organisms are created.
The Vicar of Bray Hypothesis explains why populations that undergo one variety of this process respond to environmental changes better than others, and Muller's Ratchet explains why populations using another variety of this process build up deleterious mutations.
{reproduction} [accept sexual reproduction until “Ratchet”]